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Kids and Athletics: When Is It Too Much?

September 7, 2011

Rewind to a few years ago. My first born came out of the womb with killer deltoids. She was made of solid muscle. As she grew, she proved to be fearless, remarkably fast, coordinated, and flexible. She was a born gymnast. Despite our very limited finances, we started fostering her gymnastics training at a very [...]

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Influence, Power, and Flushing Toilets

August 31, 2011

Dealing with a preschooler who has no sense of gross-out-ed-ness in a public restroom bathroom is my ultimate test of patience. If you haven’t noticed yet, I do have quite a ridiculous aversion to restrooms and have since I can remember. I’m not an overly germaphobe in other situations, but take that restroom and make [...]

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Breaking Rules on the First Day of School

August 22, 2011

The new school year brings a whole lot of new things with it: New schedules. New backpacks. New shoes. New outfits. New teachers. New school (in our case). New rules. In case you didn’t know, there are also a few unwritten rules for parents as well: Make lunches the night before. Get your child to [...]

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I Found It! My New Gym

August 16, 2011

Do you hear that? The fitness angels are singing their hallelujahs once again… I finally got a gym membership! This summer has been one of big changes: new town, new job, new home, and a new big body. We’ve also done a ton of traveling to help this pregnancy fly by (which works, by the [...]

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Pregnancy Is Funny: Brain Loss

July 20, 2011

I couldn’t find my keys. Anywhere. I had been looking, scouring the house, car, purse, laundry, everywhere desperately for hours and things were not looking good. I had this very faint memory weirdly connecting my keys to the big garbage can in our driveway. Well, I figured, what did I have to lose? I HAD [...]

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Vacation in Numbers: Nauvoo, IL

July 13, 2011

We’re back! I drove my three kids and my beautiful 17-year-old niece to my old stomping grounds of Nauvoo, IL for a week. Here’s the breakdown of the trip: 1,110 miles driven 40 hours of car time 1 maternity belt 1 killer set of support hose 2 swollen kankles (ankles the size of my knees) [...]

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On the Road Again…

July 5, 2011

The kids and I are road trippin’ to Nauvoo, IL for the next few weeks. Seventeen years ago (!) I was a performing missionary there for my church. I am very much looking forward to spending some time again in a place so special to me. But I will miss the Doc like crazy. I’ll [...]

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Pregnancy Is Funny: Find Me a Bathroom!

June 24, 2011

In the past several months, I’ve been on the road quite a bit between our new town of Uvalde and San Antonio. There’s been homes to find, schools to sign up for, visiting the Doc on his shifts down there, and plenty of odds and ends that seemed to have me racing the 90 minutes [...]

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Stressed? Don’t Forget to Exercise!

June 22, 2011

Moving to a new town. Unpacking 300 million boxes. Breaking down 300 million boxes. Taking 300 million boxes to the recycling center. Becoming the new caretaker of a pool. Brushing off my brain to try to understand pH, chlorine, alkalinity. Figuring out how to de-green my poor daughter’s hair (the chlorine was off the charts [...]

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Moving Day

June 15, 2011

I can’t believe it, but it’s here… MOVING DAY The undergrad, med school, internship, residency, and fellowship are over. The Doc is ready to set out on his own. After working towards this day for over 15 years, all I can say is one thing: YEEHA! (Is that Texan enough for you?) Uvalde, TX — [...]

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